The most characteristic feature of the Cold War, indeed the very reason behind the name, is that superpowers were afraid of the potential consequences between them, as epitomized by the fear of nuclear Armageddon.  ... The incessant need of both the Soviet Union and The United States to be the bigger better superpower of the Cold War has created serious repercussions such as defiance states, social movements, and backlashes; in the case of the United States, the Cold War foreign policy seemed to be a 'gift that keeps on giving.' ... Vietnam became a major defiance state that late...

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Wars have been won. Wars have been lost. ... Truman This quote from Harry Truman gave life to the beginning of the Cold War, which from 1945-1991 pitted the U.S. against the Soviet Communist nations. The Marshall Plan, which is what Truman is referring to in the above quote, was the catalyst, which set the stage for over 45 years of "cold" war. ... The Korean War can be divided into three phases. ...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." Thus, eluding to the idea that it was not as significant to world affairs or security as other conflicts during the Cold War such as in Vietnam. ... " This essay shall evaluate how significant the American government perceived the Korean War to be to global security by analysing key documents from the early war period such as daily summaries in addition to key speeches and NSC 68 and 48/2...

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The Cold War could be referred to as the "battle of ideas" because they never had an actual declared winner. ... This was one of the causes of the Cold War. ... Eventually the countries went to war. ... The largest bomb uses in the Cold War was about six to ten tons. ... Nobody really knows how the war ended or who won. ...

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I"m against any war, and Vietnam War is no exception. ... First American military aid arrived on South Vietnam soil in 1955, just on the rising wake of cold war. ... Cold war begins to escalade dramatically from 1951. ... During cold war world split into two blocks, each of them maintaining existing order and recruit new members. As Sergei Khrushchev in his interview to CNN about Cold War comment Soviet crackdown of Hungarian revolt: "don't see any contradiction because it was the peak of the Cold War and the Americans tried to support the order in their side of the world." ...

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The Vietnam war was fought in 1955 to 1975, and the Australian military fought in it from 1962 to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. ... There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. The term ˜Cold War' refers to the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) which began after World War II through suspicions and hate between the two superpowers. ... Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given con...

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Nixon "I don't see why we need some fancy French word in dealing with the Russians; we already have a word for it- Cold War.... Prior to Détente and the Nixon Administration, the American foreign policy that predominated during the Cold War was the strategy of containment. ... Secondly, certain facets of the war raised questions about the moral self-righteousness that had previously sustained American policy all through the period of the cold war. ... The war cracked the campaign of ant-communism which had been the preeminent ideology throughout the cold war, and which was mad...

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The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ... This war also ended the agreement with the foreign policy of the Cold War and made many Americans more concerned about other actions of their government oversea...

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The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. ... Because of the Cold War, the United States believed that the Soviet Union was responsible for any communism in any country, and that the goal of this was to envelope the entire world in communism and wipe out capitalism and democracy. ... That is exactly what the U.S. did in the case of the Vietnam Civil War. ... This was only one failed military tactic during the ...

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The fear of Communism crept in continuously throughout the Cold War. ... The fear and paranoia of Communism did not destruct after the Cold War. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. ... This war was not traditional fighting. ... This war was guerrilla war. ...

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Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. ... It was the first war televised, making people more aware of what was happening overseas. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. ...

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Gina Ferraro History 137 THE VIET NAM WAR REPRESENTED THE POWER OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO WAGE WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS? I agree that the Viet Nam War represented the power of an American president to wage war without the consent of congress. ... Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from President's Truman and Eisenhower and was determined to stop the spread of communism. ... Johnson used the powers given to him by congress to wage the war without declaring war and congress did very little to impede or interfere with the administrations war policy toward Viet ...

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The cold war had affected the United States because the fear of communist conspiracy took over the nation and many citizens didn't want to go back to war. ... The Cold War also frightened Americans to the point that they changed their way of life. ... But many feared that the Cold War was going to become violent. ... The Cold War also made the government spend more money on defense then it ever has. ... This was one affect, of many, that the Cold War had on American society. ...

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This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... When direct American troop involvement in Vietnam turned into a hard cold reality, our military planners looked to prior war experiences to help alleviate the problem of psychological disorder in combat. ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. Women have fought in all of America's wars, even though it might have been unofficial in some of the earliest wars. ... In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our...

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As the book progresses, so does the war. ... A Rumor of War was written not long after Caputo's experience in this tragic war. ... No one spoke and I felt it come back again, that old, familiar, cold, cramping fear Goddamn this war, he said, Goddamn this war," (248). ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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Introduction During the 1960s, the cold war tension was at its zenith. The Soviet Union and United State's space race was at its pinnacle; one of the most significant wars during the Cold War, the Korean War was finally reached its end; both nations were equipped with devastating atomic bombs. ... Nixon was predominated by the rising tension of the Cold War. ... The Cold War The Space Race As the tension of Cold War started to amplify, since in the late 1950s, space became one of the most prominent subjects of the two nations' competition. ... Finally, in 1959, the Soviet Union launc...

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The Nature of War War is part of God's world-order. ... The Cold War was in full force and the American government felt it needed to stop the spreading Communism in South East Asia. ... War is part of God's world-order, in war all man's evil desires are unleashed upon the enemy. War is an evil act, and can change any man. All forms of war should be stopped. ...

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The U.S. government also took it into its hands to launch a huge propaganda to raise the Cold War scare and keep ideology the same and uniform. ... The American Society was affected by the Cold War in that the U.S. was trying to prove how great their life in this country was. ... With Eisenhower in office, cold war propaganda continues. ... The United States is growing rapidly along with the cold war. ... The U.S. is growing strong and more supportive of its citizens even the cold war is alive and well. ...

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After World War II, French power began to slip and the First Indochina War began. ... These countries were founded during the Cold War. ... Not with weapons, but war seemed to be inevitable. ... The Cold War mentality, combined with a large communist group trying to gain control of the region led to the Vietnam War. ... This was the beginning of the First Indochina War. ...

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Baring in mind that the war occurred at the height of the cold war and the propaganda was quite strong; there was an overall distrust of communism and the East. ... This war became known as the T.V war. ... This turned the cold war into a three-way distrust from a two way one. All the countries had good reasons to want a warming of the cold war: America wanted to separate the USSR and China, as together they were too much of a threat to America. ... This was not to mean the cold war was over, the nuclear arms race with the USSR continued, but it did mean that the Vietnam War was drawing to an ...

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"The Manchurian Candidate" In the 1960's the Cold war paranoia of communism affected the lives of everyday people. ... The Cold war era was a time of fear and the first time the Americans felt threatened by a country that matched our abilities and power. ... This film accurately displays cold war paranoia. ...

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The Vietnam War was also another event that shaped the way Americans viewed war and how they viewed the rest of the world. ... During the cold war the Cuban missile crisis was one of the most important events happening in the news at that time. ... America was fighting a war over in Vietnam during the 70's against communism. ... Many anti-war demonstrations were being held everywhere in the United States. ... From the Vietnam War being the first televised war, to the United States spy plane being *censored* down over China, the media is a big influence on how we view the world. ...

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... At the time, the United States was in the midst of its own conflict with Russia, which was called the Cold War. ... In 1963 sides were beginning to form for the war. ... However, as they began to realize, this war was going be a long drawn out war. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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